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Laparoscopic Skills Acquisition Using an AI-enhanced Game-based Simulation Tool Compared With a Laparoscopic Simulator Box Trainer
Sponsor: University of Edinburgh
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to learn whether an AI-enhanced, game-based laparoscopic simulation tool can improve laparoscopic skills training and help increase surgical capacity in surgical trainees and other healthcare professionals learning laparoscopic surgery. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does an AI-enhanced game-based simulator lead to faster and/or higher quality acquisition of laparoscopic technical skills than a standard box trainer? * Is AI-enhanced game-based simulation a feasible and scalable model for laparoscopic skills training across diverse healthcare settings? * Researchers will compare training with the Laptitude AI-enhanced game-based simulator to training with a standard laparoscopic box trainer to see if the AI-enhanced approach results in better performance on validated laparoscopic skills assessments and more efficient training. Participants will: * Be randomly assigned to train using either the Laptitude AI-enhanced game-based simulator or a standard box trainer. * Complete a structured programme of laparoscopic training tasks. * Undergo standardized assessments of laparoscopic skills performance during and/or after the training period.
Official title: Creating New Models of Laparoscopic Surgery Skills Acquisition and Assessment: Randomised-controlled Trial of Laparoscopic Skills Acquisition Using an AI-enhanced Game-based Simulation Tool Compared With a Laparoscopic Simulator Box Trainer
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
Any - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
157
Start Date
2025-11-19
Completion Date
2026-07-31
Last Updated
2026-03-04
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
AI-enhanced game-based simulation tool (Laptitude)
A surgical simulation game-based platform comprising controllers and software delivered via a laptop computer
Laparoscopic simulator box trainer (SurgTrac)
eoSim SurgTrac box trainer platform
Locations (3)
Hospital General San Juan de Dios
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Christian Medical College (CMC), Ludhiana
Ludhiana, Punjab, India
Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU)
Ile-Ife, Nigeria